· Private foundation
Sullivan Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k23 grants · $116k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $217k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TORNADO DISASTER RELIEF WNY | $40,000 |
| JOSEPH SULLIVAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $25,700 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| MERCY HOSPITAL | $15,000 |
| MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DEPAUL | $14,000 |
| ALL HANDS AND HEARTS | $12,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| SMILE TRAIN | $10,000 |
| CONSERVATION LAND FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ST JUDE'S CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| KALEIDA HEALTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 43% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
57 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches5× · 2019–2023 · $47k · revenue +39%
- CLConservation Lands Foundation4× · 2021–2024 · $45k · revenue +35%
ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC4× · 2021–2024 · $42k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $17k
- EENVIORNMENTALone grant, 2021 · $10k
- CFCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +117%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
Partnering for healing and a healthy future through philanthropy.
Direct relief is a humanitarian aid organization, active in all 50 states and more than 80 countries, with a mission to improve the health and lives of people affected by poverty or emergencies - without regard to politics, religion, or…
To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
Aerial recovery's mission is to save lives and stop evil. through the creation and deployment of humanitarian special operators, aerial recovery brings together selected veterans, first responders, and mission-qualified civilians who,…
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
How this is measured
38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 85 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Conservation Lands Foundation ↗
- Who funds ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC ↗
- Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY FLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds KALEIDA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION ↗
- Who funds Charity Navigator ↗
- Who funds ORLANDO UNION RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds MOTION PROJECT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDMORE WESTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · Verizon Foundation · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sullivan Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sullivan Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
How this is measured
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